The Flash Season 8 is starting to race (pun intended) to its conclusion, and that means each episode is more important than the last in order to figure out what’s going to happen. Last night’s episode, “Into The Still Force” was touted by showrunner Eric Wallace to at first be an “interlude episode”, but according to him, it became something much more:
“This started out as an interlude episode and about halfway through the writing and definitely halfway into prep, I realized, ‘Oh wow, this is starting to feel more like a prelude to the final graphic novel of this season,'” Wallace said. “And that’s really what I consider it now, even though it technically is an interlude. There’s so many clues and hints and things that are in this that advance the real big story and set up our big bad for a graphic novel number seven, that it really is kind of a prelude to the season finale.”
He continued, “But with this episode, I would literally tell people, ‘Right before you watch our Season 8 finale, you should rewatch this episode.’ Because there are specific things that are presented in this episode that directly come back into the resolution, not only of Iris’s time sickness, but also to how we defeat the bad guys at the end of the year. And that was just a happy coincidence. This is where having two hats as the showrunner and director kind of provided an advantage that I didn’t know existed.”
He was able to steer certain dialogue lines and scenes so that they would reflect farther into the season. Including multiple ties to the season finale in a few weeks time. Hence, he suggests fans rewatch this episode before then, just so you can see the connections.
Source: ComicBook.com
